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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't like punishments like this, especially for younger elementary kids. It's meant to break them. I understand why a kid who always talks when they are told not to is a problem for a teacher, but in an ideal world, we wouldn't be looking for ways to silence exuberant and social children.

But then I hate traditional school models and I love talkative, silly kids.

Agree with the PP who said elementary school sucks. I had forgotten how much it sucks, until I had a kid in one. It's the pits! Wish I could afford to send my kid to a school where they had class outside all the time and running and talking were encouraged.[/quote]

You’re ridiculous.  There are 1000 things wrong with schooling in general, but learning that there is a time and place for volume is something that any child must (should) do.  School is certainly the appropriate place to teach it, and you should be reinforcing that at home.

Do you think it’s okay to encourage running and screeching in hotel rooms?  Do you like your children to use loud and exuberant voices in the hallway when their elderly grandparent is napping in an adjacent room?  Do you smile indulgently while your child’s talking wakes a sleeping baby?  Or when your child is being “exuberant” in the public library while people are trying to read?  If so, YOU are the problem.

There is a time and place for everything. Kids can be louder in the cafeteria and at recess and in PE and even in the classroom.  But teachers are trying to teach and kids are trying to learn.  There is no talking in the hallways.  This was the rule at the dawn of time when I was in elementary school, too.  Be a damn grown up and raise your kid to have some consideration for others.[/quote]

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